No garden, no balcony but fancy fresh vegetables in winter? An indoor greenhouse could provide at least a small part of the vitamin requirement and also looks decorative in the apartment. Whatever equipment you need is quickly procured so that it sprout in a few days.

A greenhouse is also sometimes useful in the home

Urban gardening, i.e. growing greenery, in the middle of the city is totally trendy and the garden journal has already reported on it in detail. But is that really also possible in the apartment and for all the many people who don't even have a front yard the size of a towel? It can't get greener indoors as long as you can find a suitable spot for an indoor greenhouse. And finally with the environmentally and nutritionally conscious self-sufficiency you can also cover a small part of your nutritional needs in a healthy way.

How a greenhouse becomes a piece of furniture

If a fridge is capable of producing ice and cold, why not have something that provides heat, light and humidity to plant your favorite greens or grow from seed? Home-grown rocket lettuce or freshly-aromatic mint for a delicious cold tea are growing in a very practical way in the home office, or even as a green room divider between the wall unit and the fireplace? In terms of practical implementation, the indoor greenhouses (€77.12) hardly differ in principle from the small rearing boxes for the window sill. However, they look much more decorative and are technically upgraded to the maximum, so the question arises:

Build your own indoor greenhouse or buy it?

On the online portal of a start-up company, we did some more in-depth research into the technical equipment of the indoor greenhouses produced there:

Materials list for do-it-yourself builders

  • Irrigation and lighting work energy-efficiently and automatically;
  • 224 dimmable LED diodes;
  • Water level meter (5 l water supply)
  • stable structure (special plastic) with decorative aluminum columns; Dimensions: 70 x 37 x 58 cm (L/W/H)
  • Organic seeds from the region
  • an integrable indoor greenhouse

Building it yourself would certainly be possible if you had the right tools and high-quality material not too big a problem especially since the material costs are likely to be considerably below the retail price of just under €400.

Mini garden in the room - what grows?

If you set up your indoor greenhouse indoors, you only have to ensure plant-friendly temperatures and sunrays if no artificial lighting is installed. Crisp, fresh winter salads would thus be provided, at least in single households. If the days increase noticeably again from the beginning of March, that can be done Indoor greenhouse for growing young plants use to later plant the balcony.

tips

Anyone who assembles their own indoor greenhouse and upgrades it with lighting and water supply in a particularly plant-friendly manner should work correctly, especially with the electrical installation, and also not completely ignore fire protection for unattended devices.

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Garden design